New Resources: Drama Online: plays and acting master classes: video, audio, and full text.

Online plays and acting master classes: video, audio, and full text.

NEW: Nick Hern Books, LA Theatre Works, Shakespeare’s Globe, Stage on Screen, Hamlet, Patsy Rodenburg

TCD Library has held a subscription for several years to the database: Drama Online.

We have now purchased six new, valuable and individual resources on the Drama Online platform, adding significant video, audio and full text material to the resources already available.

The NEW Drama Online resources are:

1. NHB Modern Plays (Nick Hern Books): 400 play scripts, screenplays and theatre books, featuring works from Conor McPherson, Enda Walsh and Nicholas Wright. 
2. L.A. Theatre Works: 350+ streamed AUDIO plays, from LATW, an American audio (radio) theatre company. Readings from literary classics, modern works by American playwrights, Pulitzer Prize-winning titles and contemporary works. The collection also includes original LATW docudramas.
3. Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen Film Collection (Globe on Screen): VIDEO recordings of 21 of the Shakespeare’s Globe’s stage productions.
4. Stage on Screen: Four VIDEO plays from London’s Greenwich Theatre: The Duchess of Malfi (Webster), Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), School for Scandal (Sheridan) and Volpone (Jonson). Includes interviews, costume designs, productions stills, and background on the play and production.
5. Hamlet the Film: 1 VIDEO: Hamlet by William Shakespeare, adapted by Michael Grandage (Genesius Pictures). Maxine Peake’s Hamlet is a female character who takes on a male mantle.
6. Rodenburg [Shakespeare in the present]: VIDEO: an acting master class with Patsy Rodenburg, (Head of Voice, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London)  is recognized as one of the world’s leading voice teachers as well as a renowned authority on Shakespeare.

More details and a link to each resource can be found on the New Resources section of our Library’s Databases and E-Books page.

Each resource is also listed on the Library’s Databases and E-Books A-Z or can be accessed directly on the Drama Online site.

 

 

TCD Library has recently purchased access to 51 titles from the Autrement Mêmes collection, published by L’Harmattan, Paris.

This is a collection directed by Professor Roger Little (Fellow Emeritus (French), TCD). According to Professor Little, these texts 'are difficult to find, often available only in specialised libraries, sometimes indeed extremely rare [...] all genres and all relevant periods are covered, mainly prose texts, however, from the 18th century to the latter part of French colonialism'.

Each title can be found catalogued individually in the Trinity Library system, Stella, and all 51 titles can be seen together on the database Autrement Mêmes.

For a full list of TCD Library's databases of journals and E-Books, current, new, and on trial, use the Databases and E-Books link on the Library homepage, found under the Stella search box.

Clíona Ní Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian.

New database trial: CAIRN: French-language E-Books from next Monday, 15 February 2016

French language E-Books available online. Trial period: 15 February 2016 - 14 April 2016.

TCD Library has arranged a two-month trial of Cairn’s E-Books.

Cairn, the French equivalent of Project Muse, is an online collection of publications in the French language, in the area of humanities and social sciences. Created in 2005 by four Belgian and French academic publishers, Cairn is now providing selected  resources from 130 publishing houses.

During the trial TCD has access to more than 2,200 research books (monographs, proceedings, other collective works) from French and Belgian publishers (Autrement, De Boeck, La Découverte, éres, éditions Mardaga, PUF, ENS, La Documentation française, Presses de Sciences Po and Quae).

The site has both French and English interfaces. It is available on and off campus during the trial.

This resource can also be accessed from the Trial Databases tab of the Library's Databases and E-Books page.

Trial: Crime, punishment and popular culture, 1790-1920 on Gale Cengage's Artemis platform.

• Crime, punishment and popular culture, 1790-1920 on Gale Cengage's Artemis platform. 
• Trial period: 11 January 2016 - 22 February 2016

Find this under the Databases and E-Books link, Trial Databases tab on the Library's home page.

Crime literature, ephemera, murder ballads, crimes dramatised.  

This unique archive marries fact and fiction, allowing researchers to discover essential primary documents such as trial transcripts, case notes from renowned judges and documents from detective agencies. 

Content includes: trial transcripts; documents related to the development of forensic techniques; detective agency records; prisoner photographs; newspaper reports; true crime literature; police force records; prison postcards; penny dreadfuls, dime novels, detective fiction and mysteries; manuscript collections from well-known figures; crime-related broadsides and prints. 

TCD Library already has 9 other resources on the Artemis platform, which may be searched individually or as a group. See the TCD Library Stella Record: Artemis Primary Sources